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Nobody’s Fool

By Richard Russo

By Richard Russo

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By Richard Russo

By Richard Russo
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By Richard Russo
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Category: Literary Fiction

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Paperback $16.00

Apr 12, 1994 | 560 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Nov 09, 2011 | 560 Pages

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Aug 12, 2003 | 1320 Minutes

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    About Nobody’s Fool

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.
     
    Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith.

    About Nobody’s Fool

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.
     
    Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith.

    About Nobody’s Fool

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.
     
    Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith.

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    About Richard Russo

    Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted for the screen in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. In 2016 he published Everybody’s Fool, a… More about Richard Russo

    About Richard Russo

    Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted for the screen in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. In 2016 he published Everybody’s Fool, a… More about Richard Russo

    About Richard Russo

    Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted for the screen in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries. In 2016 he published Everybody’s Fool, a… More about Richard Russo

    Product Details

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 12, 1994 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679753339

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 09, 2011 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307809926

    Audiobook Download | $24.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 12, 2003 | 1320 Minutes | ISBN 9780739306949

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    Praise

    “Remarkable….A revelation of the human heart.” — The Washington Post

    “Russo is a master craftsman….Nobody’s Fool is a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness.” — The Boston Globe

    “Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated, Richard Russo’s confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters.” — San Francisco Chronicle

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